3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wealth \Wealth\, noun [OE. welthe, from wele; cf. D. weelde
luxury. See {Weal} prosperity.]
1. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. [Obs.] ''Let no man seek
his own, but every man another's wealth.'' --1 Cor. x. 24.
2. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which
are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly
estate; affluence; opulence; riches.
I have little wealth to lose. --Shak.
Each day new wealth, without their care, provides.
--Dryden.
Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing
else. --F. A.
Walker.
3. (Econ.)
(a) In the private sense, all pooperty which has a money
value.
(b) In the public sense, all objects, esp. material
objects, which have economic utility.
(c) Specif. called {personal wealth}. Those energies,
faculties, and habits directly contributing to make
people industrially efficient.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Active wealth}. See under {Active}.
Syn: Riches; affluence; opulence; abundance.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wealth
noun
1: the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful
supply of material goods and money; "great wealth is not
a sign of great intelligence" [syn: {wealthiness}] [ant:
{poverty}]
2: the quality of profuse abundance; "she has a wealth of
talent"
3: an abundance of material possessions and resources [syn: {riches}]
4: property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an
exchange value
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "wealth":
Easy Street, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness,
amplitude, assessed valuation, assets, assets and liabilities,
avalanche, bed of roses, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness,
bumper crop, capital, capital gains, circumstances, cleanup,
clear profit, clover, comfort, copiousness, current assets,
deferred assets, dividends, earnings, ease, easy circumstances,
estate, extravagance, exuberance, felicity, fertility,
filthy lucre, fixed assets, fleshpots, flood, flow, foison,
fortune, frozen assets, full measure, fullness, funds, gain, gains,
generosity, generousness, get, gettings, gleanings, goods,
gracious life, gracious living, great abundance, great plenty,
gross, gross profit, gush, happiness, hoard, holdings, income,
intangible assets, intangibles, interest, killing, landslide,
lap of luxury, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, life of ease,
liquid assets, loaves and fishes, lots, lucre, luxuriance, luxury,
makings, material assets, maximum, mean, means, more than enough,
much, myriad, myriads, neat profit, net, net assets, net profit,
net worth, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow,
paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings,
plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, possessions,
prevalence, proceeds, prodigality, productiveness, profit, profits,
profuseness, profusion, property, prosperity, prosperousness,
quantities, quick assets, rake-off, receipts, repleteness,
repletion, resources, return, returns, rich harvest, rich vein,
riches, richness, riot, riotousness, scads, security, shower,
spate, stock, stock-in-trade, store, stream, substance,
substantiality, substantialness, success, superabundance, take,
take-in, tangible assets, tangibles, teemingness,
the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition,
upward mobility, velvet, weal, welfare, well-being, winnings,
worth
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